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Trying to make me go to rehab, I?m saying Nano, Nano, Nano3 May, 2009 02:24 pm Amy Winehouse, who shot to stardom with her hit single ?rehab?, may never have to see rehab, if researchers have their way. Scientists have taken a significant...Future War Revisited21 Nov, 2008 11:18 am Think of a futuristic war scenario where soldiers are firing smart weapons from the confines of their command centres. Weapons that are capable of intercepting...Ups and Downs29 Sep, 2008 11:43 am Going up? Japan is looking at getting into the space elevator business. If they are truly serious about it, I would not bet against them achieving success...Power of Small: Introduction to Nanotechnology9 May, 2008 11:59 am How will nanotechnology change the world? Nanotechnology is a rapidly moving and all-encompassing suite of technologies that promises to change almost...It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Dad Is?9 May, 2008 11:59 am Barry Steinhart and Richard Atkinson debate tagging their father with a nanoscale tracking device to ensure his safety. The Power of Small panel discusses...Nanovalve Material Captures and Stores Gases20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm In a different approach to gas storage, a Ph.D. student, Brett Chandler and two professors, George Shimizu and David Cramb, at University of Calgary along...Nanotechnology in Medicine: Massive Advances on a Tiny Scale24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University (TX) discusses her nanotechnology research and its applicable uses in science and medicine of the future. (CNN)Magic Bullets: How Nanosized Drug Packages Can Bring Drugs More Selectively to Cancer27 Nov, 2007 10:42 am Anticancer agents such as paclitaxel and cisplatin display a very high therapeutic potency towards isolated cancer cells. However,...Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna21 Nov, 2007 10:54 am Imaging techniques with high spatial resolution in the mid-infrared region of the optical spectrum (wavelength ranging from 3 microns to 25 microns) have...Nanotechnology Researchers at Northwestern University Revolutionize Drug Delivery with Advanced Nanomaterials22 Oct, 2007 10:09 am Nanodiamonds, a revolutionary class of nanomaterials, are 2 nanometers in diameter in single-particle form, and can be manipulated to form clusters with...Nanotechnology: 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics11 Oct, 2007 03:14 pm Drs. Albert Fert (France) and Peter Gr?nberg (Germany) were announced as the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of "giant...Three Good Reasons to Do Nanotechnology: 1. For a Sustainable Energy Economy20 Sep, 2007 12:57 pm When I was in Norway a few months ago, I was talking to an official from their research council about the Norwegian national nanotechnology strategy...Nanotechnology Helps Scientists Make Bendy Sensors for Hydrogen Vehicles16 Aug, 2007 11:51 am Flexible hydrogen sensors and sensor arrays (i.e., sensory skins) can be used in a wide of range of systems which require demanding low cost,...Assembling Nanoparticles on Liquid Interfaces Leads to Fascinating New Materials30 Aug, 2007 02:46 pm Stefan A. F. Bon discusses how you can use liquid-liquid interfaces as a tool to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures...New Research Explores Making Electrical Contact with Nanotubes14 Aug, 2007 11:26 am With walls that can be just one atom thick, carbon nanotubes promise to enable technology that??s smaller, faster and more energy efficient than seems...Agriculture and Food Workers Challenge Nanotechnologies9 Aug, 2007 12:10 pm We analize the first declaration issued at a continental level by a federation of trade unions on nanotechnologies. In March, 2007,...Targeting and Detecting Cancer Cells Using Nanoparticles23 Jul, 2007 02:26 pm Current cancer therapy always experiences non-specific killing of healthy cells, thus the therapeutic efficiency is extremely low...Gold Nanoglue19 Jul, 2007 10:59 am At the nanoscale - the order of billionths of a meter, materials exhibit unique optical, electronic, and magnetic properties not seen at the bulk scale...Build Public Confidence in The Process And The Governance of Science12 Jul, 2007 12:18 pm Richard Wilson is the director of Involve and co-authored a recent report entitled, ?Democratic Technologies? Final report of the Nanotechnology Engagement...Carbon Nanotube Injects Living Cells Without Damage12 Jul, 2007 02:19 pm Cell biologists have been trying to figure out the complicated processes happening inside a living cell. One commonly used approach is to introduce or...Carbon Nanotubes Are Tougher and Supercompressible11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm We show that under repeated high compressive strains, the long nanotube block shows a viscoelastic behavior similar to that seen in the soft tissue membranes...Nanotechnology and Sustainability22 Jun, 2007 05:04 pm Nanotechnology has the potential to make a big impact on sustainability; but to achieve this potential, we need a multiple of cross disciplinary approaches...Enabling New Medical Interventions through Medical Nanorobotics26 Jun, 2007 05:17 pm Nearly 100,000 km of blood vessels inside the human body could provide the best routes for conducting new or improved medical interventions non-invasively...Designing New Drug Nanocarriers18 Jun, 2007 03:43 pm The formulation of safe and efficient controlled drug delivery is an extremely important research topic. In particular, it is an ambitious goal for many...Transferring Quantum Information from Light to Matter and Back Again12 Jun, 2007 02:18 pm A quantum computer is a device that can perform certain tasks much more efficiently than a classical computer byexploiting unique aspects of quantum mechanics...Electronics, Photonics, Spintronics, Plasmonics And Now Scientists Introduce A New Field: Spinplasmonics6 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm Researchers at the Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory at the University of Alberta (U of A), Edmonton, Canada and the Naval Research Laboratory..."Nanoscience Is More Than A Revolution, It's A Profound Mutation in The History of Humanity."25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Interview with J?el de Rosnay, scientist, essayist, and a consultant to the president of la Cit? des Sciences (Paris).A world under nano-surveillance25 May, 2007 03:55 pm Nanosurveillance, that is surveillance assisted by nanotechnology, constitutes one of the most hotly contested issues at the center of this technological...Nanorobots25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Among the possible nanotechnology applications, nanorobotics constitutes without a doubt one of the most fascinating. The idea is to build machines or...Insight Into The Nano World25 May, 2007 03:56 pm A technological revolution is occurring. It will create stronger materials, a new generation of medical treatments, and even more performant electronic...100 00025 May, 2007 02:19 pm A nanometer, the nanoworld scale, is 100 000 times finer than a strand of hair.Smart Nano Composite Inhibits Tooth Decay15 May, 2007 12:36 pm When tooth decay recurs after the initial restoration, it is termed secondary (or ?recurrent?) decay. It occurs mostly at where the filling material binds...Nanotechnology for Healing Damaged Vascular Tissue4 May, 2007 12:45 pm Atherosclerotic vascular disease, characterized by artery hardening and vessel narrowing through plaque accumulation, has become the leading cause of death...Measurement Challenges Make Nanomaterials Assessments Difficult3 May, 2007 12:05 pm Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been highlighted repeatedly as a unique and versatile material that could revolutionize numerous industries in...Robust Spin Generates Hope for Spin Based Computers29 Mar, 2007 10:46 am Like a top spinning about its axis, an electron constantly rotates about its own axis creating a tiny magnetic moment known as the ?spin?...Nanotechnology Research comes of age17 Jan, 2007 11:03 am Nearly half a century has passed since Richard Feynman pointed out the tremendous potential in making structures at the atomic scale...2-D Or Not 2-D8 Jan, 2007 01:34 pm Over a century ago, when he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch?s laboratory,..."The Opportunities for Good and Bad Offered by Nanotechnology Demand an International Response"12 Sep, 2006 12:12 pm In his new book Nanotechnology: New Promises, New Dangers [1], Toby Shelley, journalist at the Financial Times, introduces us to the ?... |